Hvordan påvirker økt bruk av vilkår for sosialhjelp sysselsetting og lønnsfordeling?

Abstract

Nøkkelord sosialhjelp, aktivering, vilkår, arbeidstilbud, kvantilregresjon ABSTRACT The paper evaluates the distributional effects on income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. The paper exploits variations in policy between social insurance offices arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform reduced welfare uptake and had positive effects in the lower part of the earnings distribution. The effect on the distribution of total income is also positive, thus gains in earnings more than offset reduced welfare benefits.

Aktivitetspliktens innside og utside

“…Dette henger sammen med ideen om at det er nødvendig å stille krav for å hjelpe folk til å bli selvforsørgede (Eriksen & Molander, 2018, s. 11). Effektene av aktivitetsplikt er imidlertid uklare (Hernaes, 2018;Dahl & Lima, 2018). Det er varierende praksiser ved Nav-kontorer både når det gjelder vilkårssetting (Proba samfunnsanalyse, 2015, s. 25-26) og håndtering av brudd på vilkår (Terum, Torsvik & Øverbye, 2017).…”

Governance of the Young Unemployed – A Comparative Study of the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway

“…However, the social agencies' discretional power to impose such activities, though this power had been variably effectuated, had already existed for decades.93 In a study based on data for the period of 1994-2004, the effects of social agencies increasing their discretional power to impose conditions were evaluated. 94 The analysis shows that the number of social assistance recipients was reduced, and that the work-related activity conditions for young people had had a particular impact. Still, the author argues that the new universal regime might be less effective than the previous system of discretional power, based on the caseworkers' information of each person, to decide whether to impose conditions, and who to give such conditions.…”